Reposted by Philip WheelerKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI will never be able to make art. Thanks. 1085543792
Philip Wheeler @philipwheeler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Pack 1 week of clothes into a carry-on and do laundry on the weekend if it's more than a 1 week trip. Yes, they have laundromats in other countries. 120
Reposted by Philip WheelerFX Coudert @nanoporous.net · 22/09/2026The number of "technically sound but provides no insight" papers is infinite, sadly. This is why all mega-journals that have said policy contains endless amount of utter trash, sadly. 173
Reposted by Philip WheelerAndre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's a shame no chemist ever came up with the idea to say "I'm working on something that might kill all of humanity, so please give me several billion dollars so I can stop myself" That feels like something that should've been right up our alley 68817
Reposted by Philip WheelerTauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Erika Ishii's inclusion is not a "controversial announcement". This is elevating weird gamergaters' boring whining as deserving of attention. There's no "sides" to this, there's no "issue": It's a talented performer who's done nothing wrong being hated for who they are. 181462285
Reposted by Philip WheelerUnwoman @unwoman.com · 21/09/2026Give it two thoughts but only allow one to triumph 081
Philip Wheeler @philipwheeler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The toxic culture at Theranos, led by Holmes, silencing anyone who raised concerns about the feasibility of the technology was documented by John Carreyrou: www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Se...amazon.comBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup: Carreyrou, John: 9781524731656: Amazon.com: BooksBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup [Carreyrou, John] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 100
Philip Wheeler @philipwheeler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Her CSO committed suicide after repeatedly telling her the technology would not work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gib...en.wikipedia.orgIan Gibbons (biochemist) - Wikipedia 100
Reposted by Philip WheelerEamonn Binman @dunphitydunph.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the thing that still fucks me off about Holmes is she was convicted for harming investors, but not for harming real people. 1865
Philip Wheeler @philipwheeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Omg I played this game so much. You could fight your way out of being tagged out. 010
Reposted by Philip WheelerKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 183142632641
Reposted by Philip WheelerScientist Mel @scientistmel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Y’all …I’m really tired of encountering people who think 4 year schools are superior to 2 year schools. The snooty gatekeepers are so full of themselves…sorry…2 years are open enrollment. We teach everyone despite their struggles. Yall are too scared and elitest to do that. You aren’t better. 172
Reposted by Philip WheelerMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words. 568198043682
Reposted by Philip WheelerAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Those mountains are older than the concept of trees and bones and you WILL respect them 442565553
Reposted by Philip Wheelerreginaldedward3 @reginaldedward3.bsky.social · 12/08/2026When I joined in 1979 9 month deployments were the norm. That practice brought a whole host of problems including unprofessional behavior, drug usage, alcoholism poorly maintained equipment along with low retention. Military leadership realized that a more professional military was needed 171
Reposted by Philip WheelerMr Musashi @musashidesigns.bsky.social · 07/08/2026People under say 40 years old have only known dirtbag, crony capitalism. Of course that isn’t appealing. If people wouldn’t have been so greedy, and gad built a more Nordic Capitalist system here, you wouldn’t have socialists gaining an audience at all. 111
Reposted by Philip WheelerChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 04/06/2025PEOPLE DON'T JOIN THE ACS BECAUSE THEY THINK IT'S NOT USEFUL, NOT BECAUSE IT HAS AN OLD LOGO quit trying to give the Titanic a new coat of paint and, I dunno, help out the 40% of your members who are freaking out about the Trump Administration setting fire to the American research funding apparatus 16714
Reposted by Philip WheelerAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin... 295114802682
Reposted by Philip WheelerThe Onion @theonion.com · 31/07/2026Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map 181560274
Reposted by Philip WheelerEleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters 18758231531
Reposted by Philip WheelerBirdpoof @birdpoof.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Yeah, this applies to everything. Non-experts using AI will fail to catch errors in review precisely because they don't know the topic. Derp. And companies replacing junior employees with AI will find out the hard way that without the jr>sr pipeline, they'll have no senior SMEs to check the work! 1499
Philip Wheeler @philipwheeler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Agree that finding the exact cutoff will be exceedingly hard, but maybe drawing some line that we can all agree is exploitation is where we start. Mine is a CEO earning more than 100x what he pays the janitor. If you can figure out how to pay him 100k per year, you earned your 10M. 010
Philip Wheeler @philipwheeler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I'm for regulated capitalism myself. To get there, the first step needs to be trust busting 2.0, and politicians campaigning against corporate cronyism that hurts consumers are likely to get support from voters. Many people (stupidly) voted for Trump believing he would stand up to corporations. 000
Reposted by Philip WheelerBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy 3556111319
Reposted by Philip WheelerJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Failure to act on bullying and persistent negativity is a leading reason why employees leave an organization—more significant than salaries or wages. A study from MIT Sloan found “toxic corporate culture” to be 10.4 times more important than compensation in an employee’s decision to resign. 1174
Reposted by Philip WheelerThe Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026@bretdevereaux.bsky.social 6075961616
Reposted by Philip Wheeler𝙃𝘼𝘾𝙆𝙀𝙍𝙈𝘼𝙉ᴴᴹ @hackermanhm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026it's exceptionally wild because PageRank is essentially a proto-LLM conceptually, except they used to have guys who fixed bad results and prevented people trying to game it, in recognition of the fact that the algorithm only recognizes patterns in digital text; it doesn't and can't think for itself. 091
Reposted by Philip Wheelerderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek. 667182741589
Reposted by Philip WheelerScience Magazine @science.org · 23/07/2026Exclusive: A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability. scim.ag/3RuHuDB scim.agExclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals 05627
Reposted by Philip WheelerJohn Travis @john-travis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026@science.org and @retractionwatch.com partner on a feature today on a clinical trial death that's the saddest, and longest, science story I've edited. But it's also one of the best IMO. Beautifully written and reported by @bborrell.bsky.social We’re grateful to the parents of "Mei" 1/ 14019
Reposted by Philip WheelerPaul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.nytimes.comFDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago. 16328291508
Reposted by Philip WheelerScience Magazine @science.org · 24/07/2026In the latest #SciencePodcast🎙️, freelance science journalist Brendan Borrell talks about his work reporting on the previously undisclosed death of a 6-year-old girl in a gene-editing clinical trial in China and the reasons her parents came forward. 🎧 Listen here: scim.ag/3RNfStH 095
Philip Wheeler @philipwheeler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The claim that RFK Jr has a functioning brain is not an "evidence-based claim" because studies have not ruled out the possibility that a parasite ate all the gray matter and there is nothing left in his skull but worm shit. 010
Reposted by Philip WheelerThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/07/2026“No bars can hold me!” this weekend as he entered his ninth consecutive hour of trying to pry open his cell. “Prison is only a mindset, and it’s only a matter of time before I release myself from its fetters!” said the red-faced, sweat-soaked Andrew Tate theonion.com‘No Bars Can Hold Me,’ Says Andrew Tate Entering 9th Hour Of Trying To Pry Open CellMIAMI—Confined to a federal detention center in Florida and facing extradition to the U.K. on multiple charges of human trafficking and rape, social media influencer Andrew Tate was reportedly heard t... 241531173
Reposted by Philip WheelerMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?" 607151734094
Reposted by Philip WheelerAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2026When we have fires in the US, Canada sent help. When Canada has fires, Trump threatens them with tariffs. What an asshole. 48158361756
Reposted by Philip WheelerWIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026A statement from WIRED leadership. 255158112997
Philip Wheeler @philipwheeler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Sounds like he is at a GRC. Party with chemists, just don't try to outdrink us. 100
Reposted by Philip WheelerChris Brennan @chris-brennan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026In order to defeat the existential white christian nationalist threat, I will vote for anyone who fights for constitutional democracy that guarantees equality under the law for *everyone*--no exceptions and nobody left behind--regardless of how much I might disagree with their economic policies. 2545
Reposted by Philip WheelerAry Shalizi @unsequenced.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Having made a hobby over the last few years of reading old and new popular books about biotechnology, I’ve noticed that “thanks to this latest technology/ discovery we’re about to solve disease and control biology” is a century-old trope… unsequenced.life/2026/05/15/h...unsequenced.life 1142
Reposted by Philip Wheelermaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday. 115111522405
Reposted by Philip WheelerAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026In a sane world the findings here would be enough for a unanimous impeachment and conviction: the President attempted to steal nearly 2B from the US 111008276
